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Cork-born John Joseph Therry was the first Catholic chaplain officially appointed to Australia. After arriving in Sydney in May 1820 at the age of thirty, he proved to be unrelenting and passionate in his efforts to secure justice and clemency for convicts. Loved and esteemed by people, including the Aborigines who considered him a friend, he was continually in trouble with the authorities, both colonial and ecclesiastical. Mystically inclined, a devoted student of the Bible and a lover of music, he was a prominent and outspoken leader and communicator at a uniquely interesting period in Australia's development. Appropriately, he is interred in the crypt of Saint Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, having built the original Church on that same site.
John McSweeney, also Cork-born and ordained a priest in All Hallows College, Dublin, took up an invitation to follow in Therry's footsteps. Apart from five years of ministry in post-war Japan, he served in the Sydney archdiocese for all his career. He wrote this book so that John Joseph Therry, and the major role he played in the founding of the Australian Church and influencing Australian values, may be more widely known and appreciated.
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